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Fig. 1 | Parasites & Vectors

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From: Association between body size and reservoir competence of mammals bearing Borrelia burgdorferi at an endemic site in the northeastern United States

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Box-whisker plots and regression of normalized B. burgdorferi cells per individual tick and body mass for seven Connecticut mammalian species from which larval ticks were collected after feeding and allowed to molt. Infection and bacterial counts were determined by quantitative PCR. In order of increasing size these were the white-footed mouse (n = 14), pine vole (n = 3), eastern chipmunk (n = 3), gray squirrel (n = 4), Virginia opossum (n = 4), striped skunk (n = 1), and common raccoon (n = 3). Each horizontal box indicates the first and third quartiles, and the indentation inside the box is the median. The 1.5× interquartile range is indicated by the horizontal line (whiskers) bisecting the box, and a value outside this range is indicated by an asterisk. The coefficient of determination (R 2), F statistic, and 2-tailed p value are shown

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